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indian public enterprises with Billions of The SCOPE-GIZ event was inaugurated by Additional
tonnes of Co emissions Willing to act on Secretary, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate
2 Change (MoEFCC), Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, who underlined
Climate Change that engaging with PSEs can galvanise actions for meeting
the goals on Climate.
With view to international climate negotiations, Mr. Prasad
highlighted that independent analysis shows that it was
the developing countries who are taking more action than
the developed countries as the latter are not meeting their
commitments, including that under the Kyoto Protocol. A
closer look at India shows that climate action is indeed being
enhanced beyond the national NDC targets – for instance

The Climate and Environment Cluster of GIZ India has
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE).
A particular valuable signature is that of SCOPE member
Coal India Limited, as this public company alone produced
approximately 86 % of India’s CO emissions in 2017. Now, Photo: GIZ India
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SCOPE members are willing to act and agreed with the BMU
Global Carbon Markets project to build capacities on Climate the increase in the target for renewables from 175 GW to
Change, Carbon Markets, Carbon Pricing and Climate Finance. 450 GW as well as commitments under the Bonn Challenge
announced to increase from 21 million hectares to 26 million
- By Kundan Burnwal hectares mha. Additional Secretary, Prasad added that the
GIZ India Climate and Environment Cluster State Action Plans on Climate Change are currently being
aligned with the national NDCs.
India is one amongst the few G-20 countries whose climate
actions are in line to achieve its NDC targets. For this, it is The SCOPE and GIZ India event had sessions on Indian
crucial that the capacities of Private and Public Enterprises Climate Policy and international negotiations; Low carbon
to tackle climate change are enhanced. In particular, Public growth and decarbonization of key sectors; Climate Resilient
Sector Enterprises are of strategic importance for the Indian Infrastructure and Supply Chains; Carbon Pricing and Carbon
economy as they have contributed to capital formation, Finance in Indian Industry; Role of Indian Public Sector in
employment generation (about 1.7 million people), balanced achieving SDGs; and accelerating mobilisation of climate
regional development, promotion of research and they finance in India. Mr. Atul Sobti, Director General, SCOPE and
represent a very high proportion of India’s CO eq emissions Mr. Ashish Chaturvedi, Director, Climate Change, GIZ India
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of 2.3 billion tonnes in 2018. A milestone was achieved, shared the proposed plan of action as a follow up to the
when SCOPE and GIZ India entered into a Memorandum of event:
Understanding (MoU) in October 2019 to build capacities • GIZ and SCOPE will develop an online and offline platform
of Public Sector Enterprises on climate change, SDG for experience sharing and foster collaboration and
implementation, carbon markets and climate finance. partnerships amongst PSEs and other stakeholders.
This initiative is part of the BMU funded ‘Global Carbon • Champions among PSEs for Climate Change and SDGs will
Market’ (GCM) Project. To start action, SCOPE and GIZ India be identified to develop a network for knowledge sharing.
jointly organised an event on ‘Climate Change Mitigation & The champions would be involved in a regular basis for
Adaptation and Sustainable Development Goals – Emerging the ongoing capacity building efforts of SCOPE and would
Role of Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs)’ in December 2019 also be supported to develop master trainers for future
in New Delhi. The participating Indian PSEs included several programmes on climate change and SDGs.
which are rated by Thomson Reuters in the list of top 100
global businesses with highest CO2 emissions, among • SCOPE and GIZ will conduct training needs assessment of
them Coal India Limited, NTPC Limited and Oil & Natural the PSEs to develop training manuals on climate change,
Gas Corporation. In addition, big players like GAIL (India) carbon pricing, carbon markets etc. followed by joint
Limited, Steel Authority India Limited (SAIL), Nuclear Power national and regional events on climate change and SDGs.
Corporation joined the meeting. Concerning CO2 emissions, • The key insights from the training manuals developed
the state-owned company Coal India Limited tops the list for the PSEs will be integrated in ongoing and future
with 2.076 billion tonnes in 2017. executives’ capacity building and training programs
After China, India is the world’s largest coal consumer meaning offered by SCOPE;
India could largely determine the global trajectory for coal • Selected PSUs will be supported in establishing climate
considering that coal has fuelled rapid growth in Indian change strategies. Discussions on technological insights
electricity sector. One estimate says that coal generated 76% from national and international experiences will be
of India’s electricity in 2017. organized to cater the needs of Indian PSUs.

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